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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

University Grants Commission
(Minimum Standards of Instructions for the grant of the Masters Degree
through Formal Education) (First Amendment) Regulations, 2013.

No.F.1-9/2012 (CPP-II)
In exercise of the powers conferred under clause (f) of sub-section (1) of Section 26 of
University Grants Commission Act, 1956 (3 of 1956), the University Grants Commission hereby
frames the following amendment Regulations, namely:-
1. Short title and commencement:
1.1 These Regulations may be called the University Grants Commission (Minimum
Standards of Instructions for the grant of the Masters Degree through Formal Education)
(First Amendment) Regulations, 2013.
1.2 They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Gazette of India.
2. The clause 2.1 of the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards of Instructions
for the grant of the Masters Degree through Formal Education) Regulation, 2003 (herein
after to be called ‘The Principal Regulation’) shall stand amended and be substituted by the
following clause: -
“2.1 ‘No student shall be eligible for admission to a masters degree programme in any of
the faculties unless he/she has successfully completed an under graduate programme
of at least three years or earned prescribed number of credits for an undergraduate
degree through the examinations conducted by a university/autonomous Institution or
possesses such qualifications as recognized by the concerned university as equivalent
to an undergraduate degree.”
3. The clause2.5 of the Principal Regulations shall stand amended and be substituted by the
following clause:-
“2.5 ‘depending upon the academic and physical facilities available in the institutions, the
University may allow an Institution to admit a certain number of students directly to the
second year of a master degree programme, if the student has successfully completed
the first year of the same programme in another institution.”
4. The clause 4.1 of the Principal Regulations shall stand amended and be substituted by the
following clause:-
“4.1 “every university enrolling students for the masters degree programme shall ensure
that the number of actual teaching days on which classes such as lectures, tutorials,
seminars and practicals are held or conducted, is not less than 180 in an academic
year, excluding holidays, vacation, time set apart for completing admissions and time
required for conduct of examination.”
5. The clause 8.1 of the Principal Regulations shall stand amended and be substituted by the
following clause:-
“8.1 “no student shall be eligible for the award of the masters degree unless he/she has
successfully completed minimum of two years after the first degree or five years after
plus two and earned the minimum number of credits prescribed by the university for
the programme.

Provided that a masters degree, where entry qualification is two bachelor’s degree in
succession, Including one in the relevant discipline or an integrated degree of five years
in the relevant discipline after plus two, the duration may be one year.”
JASPAL. S. SANDHU
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